Tiffany Henyard Goes into Hiding After $3.65 Million Money Laundering Scandal Exposed!

disbelief in doltan Thursday evening as Chicago's former mayor who was hired to investigate doltan mayor Tiffany henards Administration revealed the shocking spending of taxpayer dollars more drama in Dalton credit card transactions amounting to thousands of dollars without explanation and millions more owed to vendors a bombshell report highlights just how much financial trouble the village of Dalton is really in trustees say the village is facing financial disaster and they blame the mayor for mismanagement she says this is all just political retribution no response to repeated interview requests I tried to track down Dotan mayor Tiffany henyard in person today Village employees told me she wasn't in the office now we've learned from multiple sources that federal agents are in fact interviewing witnesses as part of a possible investigation that may or may not result in charges [Music] [Music] is it coincidence or retaliation both of the Dalton bars that were ra ated and shut down last night we visited the day before as part of our ongoing investigation into allegations of political corruption in Dalton they just rushed in here put police at the front of the door like they was doing a raid on the drug out something a team of Dalton police officers raided and shut down Pablo's baring Cafe and rinky baring Cafe both located on SI about a block apart everything going peacefully nothing going on there like 10 police cars came in and and they start pushing customers from here and he said if you don't leave we're going to lock you up employees and owners say it's part of an ongoing campaign of harassment by Dalton mayor Tiffany henyard that is costing jobs and money their business licenses have been Stripped by Dalton but they've continued to operate with a state license to stop creating chaos Dalton mayor Tiffany henyard at the helm of The Village's first packed meeting since Dalton trustees passed a resolution last month requiring her to turn over The Village's Financial records and asking the FBI to investigate her alleged misuse of Village funds the mayor admits to a $2 million deficit but trustees say it's Millions more Monday night the mayor vetoed their resolution The veto message um is related to the secret scre me yes that the board of trustee have the trustees vow to override her veto one of them K beler sitting at the meeting with her portrait because she says it was removed from the wall of Village Hall and this is just a a process to drag it along but everybody see what's going on the Village Under henyard leadership is cracking down on access pushing media at tonight's meeting to the very back of the room almost out of sight of public comment from residents but their voices were loud and clear you lie to us as residents you do not you do not stand for me and I want you to step down as mayor today and save our Village from this deficit that you have called the mayor can blame every body for what's going on but she has to look at herself nobody told her to get on TV and lie like that everybody cares about the person that's making a mess henard placing the blame elsewhere but only judge when you got both sides of the story not one side narratives which is negative narratives in the media anything as relates to with cedit cards as you heard me speak today and my board mean I do not have some of those charges are for you though no sir you didn't go to Las Vegas M what is that no you don't know if you were in Las Vegas of course I do do you fly first class to Las Vegas any other questions you're not going to answer how taxpayer dollars are being spent that seems odd I just answered it what do you mean I just answered your question you said you wouldn't answer about Las Vegas you asked me a question and I respond okay being together at this time at this moment is going to be black right y' all sayther K had a dream but guess what I am the dream y'all forget I am the leader they want to hear from the mayor if y'all ain't learned that yet Black History Month of course I'mma give away a million dollars to help you pay your mortgage and your rent of course I am the mayor not the trustees that don't do nothing that only run their M we getting scrutinized in the media for what loving on the people showing them that they matter to us we going through the fires for y'all black here 3 months as the first African-American female mared Dawson of course I'll misunderstood y'all should be ashamed of y'all y'all black y'all are black and y'all sitting up here beating and attacking on a black woman that's in power y'all should be shamed of yel no annual report or audit since 2021 the general fund for Day-Day operations in the red with 3.65 million Police Department expenditures up 21% with two officers paid more in overtime pay than regular pay as of June 18th 589 checks totaling more than $6 million approved but not sent to vendors six different credit cards with receipts rarely provided and purchases under investigation including $40,000 in charges to Amazon you may hear a number of things in the coming days but what can I I can assure you is the information that we have shared that we're putting our names on is drawn directly from Financial records of this Village I knew we were broke and the way she broke it down and just uh let the other residents hear what was really going on because Tiffany henyard always talk about fake news and this is real but she also found The Village's credit card spending is out of control mayor Tiffany henard didn't respond to any of my requests today and I'm told she's not in the building no response to repeated interview requests I tried to track down doton mayor Tiffany henyard in person today Village employees told me she wasn't in the office and didn't say when she would be a day after this $1 a packed community meeting Thursday night Outburst after Outburst the $440,000 at Amazon what a slap in the face to everybody that reside in six 0419 zip code I know how I felt when I started seeing these numbers so I can imagine how all of you are feeling after all this time being in the dark there are a number of other things we know but we um aren't ready yet we got to verify them 20 ways from Sunday here is proof for everyone to see and even the ones who doubt us if you don't see through this it's nothing I can say to you February of 2025 clean house clean house people that say things about me I want you to prove it because like I said fact versus fiction so you got us into this mess and now we're trying to Savage what we can to get out sitting at the mayor's side in a place usually reserved for the village attorneys two unfamiliar faces this is Chicago Federal criminal defense attorney Bo Brinley along with his law partner Ed McDavid the website for brindley's Law Firm says results matter aggressive criminal defense the two criminal lawyers sat next to henyard the entire meeting and even went into the board's closed executive session henyard is at the center of an ongoing FBI corruption investigation I didn't know them um a lot of my my board members they didn't know them either we didn't know who they were Deputy police chief leis Lacy fired for insubordination last week by The Dalton village board is back appointed by Tiffany henyard as police chief trustees say it's an illegal appointment Lacy was arraigned on federal bankruptcy fraud charges Thursday afternoon it's alleged that he lied under oath in a scheme to hide assets and income from creditors Mr Lacy is absolutely not guilty of all nine counts I think the government likes to bring uh as many counts as possible just so the media will say that he has been charged with nine counts is there a motion to terminate Keith Freeman dton mayor Tiffany henard tried to fire her top Aid last week but was met with Silence from trustees who refused to vote on the termination this what y'all say about the pery I say he's never at work he'll do his job if this what yall say so what we doing guys the standoff is surprising given the trustees once despised Village administrator Keith Freeman for helping henard run the show in Dalton in Thornton Township but he's now cooperating with trustees investigating henyard spending I I had trouble following it as well uh but now uh Keith Freeman is cooperating doing what he should have been done in the first place cooperating with trustees with the trustees absolutely doing his job several new developments in South Suburban Dalton today first the state controller has suspended some payments to the Village because it has failed to follow the law by providing Financial reports that was just today the controller says that she's concerned following our reporting on allegations of mismanagement at Dalton the decision means that the village won't receive $135,000 this year that the state usually transfers to communities for unpaid traffic parking citations and other judgments until recently henard enjoyed near unanimous support on the thoron Township board but now trustee Carmen Carlile says after trusting henyard and remaining silent she will be a whistleblower against henyard Carl released a statement to WGN that reads in part for the past 2 years henyard has manipulated employees vendors and residents using her position to increase her influence all while projecting a false image of success funded by the hardworking taxpayers of Thorton Township and the village of Dalton henyard shows no accountability or conscience for her actions against employees or taxpayers henyard has denied wrongdoing and claims her opponents are out for what she calls clickbait um my next appoint appointment will be for Village administrator last night Dalton mayor Tiffany henyard appointed a new top Aid to a $100,000 a year job without board consent 34 yearold Michael A Smith who's been active in South Suburban politics for years the reason for Mike is Mike is uh he have a wealth of great information he's a young uh person and ex politician uh he knows the laws like the back of his hand perhaps that's because Smith has been in and out of trouble with the law for years public reporting show Smith has been charged at least eight times with crimes ranging from domestic battery to official misconduct in 2012 Smith then a young trustee in dixmor resigned after pleading guilty to theft when he allegedly stole Gasoline by posing as a police officer then in 2018 Smith was working as an assistant Dean at Thorton fractional High School when he was fired for sexual harassment of a female student hey guys hey it's a Superman May tney a you're the people's mayor the super mayor took to social media to promote her party there was a bounce house skating and a food giveaway but I put my own money to make sure that I put on for my put my money with my mouth henyard said she paid after trustees refused they're trying to control her spending and were skittish because the event was advertised as the friends of Tiffany henyard picnic that's also the name of her campaign font her lawyer denies it was a political event but it's clear that bash was meant to bolster henards image as she faces a federal investigation into her spending in Dalton where she's the mayor and Thornton Township where she's the supervisor and for those that don't know let me make sure I'm crystal clear about this I ain't never took a damn thing in my life so I want to make sure y'all hear out my mouth Tiffany henyard seems to have sworn to make sure the banks in Dalton and Thorton Township are empty by the time she leaves office while people knew things were bad they weren't expecting it to be as bad as Lori Lightfoot revealed it to be now they are millions of dollars in debt let's go back a few weeks to see what exactly happened Tiffany henards entire tenure has been rif with accusations of corruption and favoritism yet she doesn't seem to care villagers have been trying to get her to back off for years though things came to a head when it was announced that the FBI was investigating henyard this was because multiple people had filed complaints against her including business owners who claimed that their businesses were shut down simply because they didn't support hen yard's political activities fast forward a few months and former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot was appointed to investigate henards Corrupt Practices of course henyard tried her best to resist she first tried to blame the village Trustees for The Village's debt and in a move that was sort of embarrassing she tried to veto the FBI investigation her veto was soon overridden by a majority vote from the Board of Trustees Tiffany has always been someone who maintains her innocence always subverting complaints against her as either anti-black or anti-female however she has previously refused to answer any questions regarding her now Infamous Las Vegas trip where she blew thousands in taxpayer money on hotels restaurants and airline tickets Lori lightfoot's first report also left both Dalton and Thornton residents reeling with a presentation filled with audible gasps following the report Tiffany henyard seemed to have disappeared when news channels tried to reach out after the Revelation that she had placed the general fund alone in millions of debt not to mention any other embezzlements the trustees also used the findings to make it clear that Tiffany henyard was not for the people and she was using their money to fund her own lavish lifestyle meanwhile Tiffany has also geared up to protect herself from any investigation even having her criminal defense attorneys sit in on board meetings the two seem to have become her new right-hand men especially as she has fired her former top Aid Keith Freeman this came during the first meeting where she tried to fire Freeman her actions and the fact that she hasn't submitted any Financial reports for the past 2 years mean that people have started taking action against her one move was to freeze the allocation of $135,000 that they'd usually receive for unpaid fees and traffic fines meanwhile henards actions have also started turning more of her supporters against her with one whistleblower emerging from the thoron Board of Trustees with things still heated up in Dalton Tiffany is still up to no good and every day something worse comes out recently it was her controversial hire for Village administrator what's worse as the village reels from the knowledge that there are literally millions in debt Tiffany is too busy partying to care will henyard finally face the music or will residents suffer even more let's wait and see that's it for now don't forget to tell us what you think in the comments below for more updates hit the Bell icon